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Date Posted: 12:07:03 05/28/01 Mon
Author: len
Subject: here's more for ya saira dear. now where's mine?? :)

transcendentalism - movment in US during 1800's, Emerson was theorist, Thoreaus was doer, Whitman inspired, believed that truth transcends, Oversoul, people reflected in nature
DOrothea Dix - 1843 appeal to MASS to improve conditions, reformer for mentally ill, believed them to be ILL not perverse
Frederick Doulass - former slave, abolitionist, orator, gifted lecturer, wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845
Gadsden Purchase - 1853 treaty ceding land for $10 million to US from James Gadsden, criticized by paying too much $ for desert size of South Caroline, Senate approved, South got railroad
Ostend Manifesto - American envoys' confidential preparations for Cuba acquisition, document urged US to pay $120 million, Spain said no & endangered US interests, US justified in taking from Spanish, info leaked, North angry, Pierce dropped plans
Kansas-Nebraska Act - passed by Congress, separated Nebraska into 2 states, democratic vote to hold slavery, MS compromise forbade slavery norht of 36 30 line, overruled by Pierce & Douglass (frederick)
Republican party - spontaneous from Midwest as protest against slavery gains, sectional group
Know-Nothing Party - 1849, Order of the Star Spangled Banner, secretive, anti-immigrants, lurid fiction authors
William Walker - American explorer, tried to control Nicaragua in 1850's, made himself Pres in June 1856, legalized slavery, coalition of Central Americans formed alliance to overthrow him (and they did!)
Fisk & Gould - notoriious millionaires, plotted in 1869 to "corner" gold market, worked on Grant and brother-in-laws, bid price of gold higly, Treasury released gold, plot failed
Knights of Labor - 1869, secret society until 1881, all workers in 1 union, excluded liquore dealers/pro-gamblers/lawyers/bankers/stockbrokers, for economical and social reform, 8 hr workday, health codes, 1886 May Day strikes, group associated w/ anarchy, gone by 1890's
Standard Oil CO - owned by Rockefeller, controlled world petroleum market, horizontal integration & the trust (joining with others to monopolize market)(stock assigned to Bd of Directors of huge co)
Apache Wars - led by Geronimo, pursued into Mexico, farmed in Ok, raised stock, braves returned after women exiled to Fl
Boss Tweed (William Marcy) - bribery graft, fraudulent elections to make $200 million from city, Times published evidence in 1871, Tweed arrested, lack of ethics typical of 1870's, "Tweed Ring" in NYC
reservations - ghettoized NA's, wards of gov't, land grants from gov't to Na's to pacify them for taking their land

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